Due to her addiction, her son, Lincoln, had been removed from her care. She’d been kicked out of her house, so she’d resorted to house-hopping and sleeping in her car.

“I was broken,” she remembers. “And I was about to go to harder drugs. But something in me knew it wasn’t going to help me. I’d lost Lincoln, but somehow I knew it wasn’t the end. He’s the most important thing in my life and I had to get sober and stay sober for him.”

Rachelle was exposed to drugs when she was young, and she’s tried to get help for her addiction in the past, but it wasn’t until she lost custody of her son that she truly committed to her recovery.

“I was a little scared to come here because of the rules and the curfew,” she recalls. “But it helped me out in the end. It’s safe here, and I don’t have to worry about people using around me.”

During her two years at Hope Center, Rachelle completed every requirement of our life recovery program. She’s held down a job for longer than she ever has before. She got her license back and saved up to buy a car, which she paid for in full. “It was a good feeling to work for it! That car is mine and it’s fully insured.”

And on June 14, her birthday, she reached her two-year sobriety date!